Portfolio Budget Statements: updates to performance measures

The ATO reviews its performance measures each year to ensure they continue to be relevant and meet government and community expectations.

A key part of this process is assessing what should be reported as a performance measure versus publishing information on the tax and superannuation systems more broadly.

The review process resulted in a suite of performance measures – that are targeted and directly aligned to our mission to ensure the ATO contributes to the economic and social wellbeing of Australians – being retained for 2017–18. The remaining measures will be repositioned and presented with the broader information set published in the ATO annual report 2017–18.

The updates to ATO performance measures are included in the Portfolio Budget StatementsExternal Link, presented as part of the Commonwealth Budget papers to Parliament in May each year. The 2017–18 Budget was released on 9 May 2017.

The performance measures that will be presented in the 2016–17 annual report, to be published later this year, reflect those outlined in the ATO Corporate Plan 2016–17.

The page is a rationale for why the ATO updates its performance measures on an annual basis, accompanied by more specific information on the results of this year’s changes and a link to the Portfolio Budget Statements on the Treasury website where people can read the changes in detail.

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